JOKER! You're Not In The Same League With MKO Abiola- BMO Fires Atiku

The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has been described as not in the same democratic league with the late Chief Moshood Abiola and Dr Alex Ekwueme.

The Buhari Media Organisation (BMO) said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja that it was “evil for anyone to make such comparison’’.

The statement was signed by BMO’s Chairman Niyi Akinsiju and Secretary Cassidy Madueke.

The group said the comparison that Atiku media handlers are trying to sell to Nigerians was totally out of proportion, as its another attempt by them to re-write history in order to paint Atiku in a good light. 

“Anyone that is saddled with the task of painting a good picture of a serially tainted politician would throw words around and hope that no one would notice the fallacies,’’ It said.

“Here is a man that is willing to move and has actually moved three times between two different ruling parties and the opposition after failing to have his way.

“None of the people his media men have name-checked in their recent statement has had to change parties to satisfy a selfish desire". 

The statement noted that Atiku was a desperate politician that was known to have threatened violence at a forum in Abuja, shortly after he lost PDP Presidential ticket in a bitter contest to then President Goodluck Jonathan.

“Before then, there was unprecedented intra-party acrimony that was so characterised by mudslinging that the then opposition Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) had to issue a statement calling for peace in the ranks of the ruling PDP".

BMO also wondered why the former vice president and his media handlers would seek to rubbish history with false narratives on the actual role he played in the dying days of military rule.

It added that even when Ekwueme took up the gauntlet to lead the political opposition against the late General Abacha, Atiku was never part of the politicians at the forefront of that initiative, as the only time Atiku and Ekwueme could be mentioned in the same sentence is when a list of the country’s former Vice Presidents is drawn.